This week in the poetry blogs with @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

My review of Into the Hush by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze: emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/i...

My review of Edward Ragg's Material Witness emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/m...

Guest Speaker Rebecca Fallon Thursday 14 May 7-9pm hybrid: join via Zoom or at Phoenix Leicester, details: leicesterwritersclub.com/2026/04/03/r...

Diamonds aren't forever & other truth-bombs with @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @renee-emerson.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

#NaPoWriMo day 30 poem 32 “A Strange Pram”

#NaPoWriMo day 29 poems 29-31 “Camp March Hare”, “Pearls & Chrysanthemums” & “From a Tent in Scraptoft to a Medal of Honor”

#NaPoWriMo day 28 poem 28 “Housing Snakes and Ladders”

Delighted to see a page of 3 of my poems, "Parent as if you don't have a job, work as if you're not a parent", Imagine a weekday, say Thursday? & Sunlight is the best bleach in AEOS with thanks to the editors.

#NaPoWriMo day 27 poems 27 a short sequence of poems about important views, “Elegant Sentinel”, “Outside the Hall”, “Routes out of the city”, “Survival is more than living”, “A wildlife corridor” & “Work Starts with Play”

#NaPoWriMo day 26 poem 26 “Designed to be Ignored”

A Bodacious rose for sharing a couple ilof jazz inspired poems in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald whose birthday was yesteeday

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - A Seamstress's Tea Break by @emmalee1.bsky.social

#NaPoWriMo day 25 poem 25 “Multi-purpose” (holding title, will be changed)

Delighted to see my poem A Seamstress's Tea Break published in Atrium Poetry with thanks to the editors:

#NaPoWriMo day 24 poem 24 “Separation” (holding title, will be changed)

#NaPoWriMo day 23 poem 23 “Monitoring the Junction”

#NaPoWriMo day 22 poem 22 “History and Service”

#NaPoWriMo day 21 poem 21 “Waiting, just in case”

#NaPoWriMo day 20 poem 20 “You’d notice it more if it wasn’t there”

#NaPoWriMo day 19 poem 19 “Remarkable if you look closely”

#NaPoWriMo day 18 poem 18 “Unsuitable for Small Children”

#NaPoWriMo day 17 poem 17 “I’m the place where the story is written, not the story”

#NaPoWriMo day 16 poem 16 “On Balance”

My review of Li Er's "Cherries on a Pomegranate Tree" translated by Dave Haysom @sinoistbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/c...

#NaPoWriMo day 15 poem 15 “Daisies and Thermoplastic Paint”

We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair on Saturday 25 April: hope to see you there. St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry. Further info: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-v...

#NaPoWriMo day 14 poem 14 “The Secrets I Could Tell”

#NaPoWriMo day 13 poem 13 “No Flash in the Pan”

#NaPoWriMo day 12 poem 12 “Scroll, Stroll, Pause”

#NaPoWriMo day 11 poem 11 “Types of Flight”

#NaPoWriMo day 10 poem 10 “Known as Jimmies”

A Q&A about blogging and reviewing: booksbyyourbedside.org/2026/04/09/e... with thanks to Books By Your Bedside:

#NaPoWriMo day 9 poem 9 “Signs of March”

#NaPoWriMo day 8 poem 8 “Play Up and Play Again”

#NaPoWriMo day 7 poem 7 “A Frosty Reception”

#NaPoWriMo day 6 poem 6 “Mixed Blessings”

#NaPoWriMo day 5 poem 5 “Keeping Score”

#NaPoWriMo day 4 poem 4 “A Permissive Pathway for Mount Woodland”

#NaPoWriMo day 3 poem 3 “For the Love of a Lake”

#NaPoWriMo day 2 poem 2 “A Phoenix in Spirit”.

'Why joining a writers' club is a good idea: emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/w...

#NaPoWriMo day 1, poem 1 “Instructions for setting up an appeal to a planning decision”. Doing something different this year. After writing “Drafting a Neighbourhood Plan”, I’m just seeing how many poems will follow from that.

On the anniversary of Richard III's interment at Leicester Cathedral, it seemed apposite to share "This Funeral Will not be Televised" originally published in Clear Poetry clearpoetry.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/e...

Deadline tomorrow (26 March 2026). Ensure you complete the questionnaire if you live/work in Leicester city or Leicestershire. Will affect the city if a certain option is chosen: www.scraptoftparishcouncil.gov.uk/news/2026/02...

Delighted to have two poems in the inaugural issue of the Poet In Verse Journal with thanks to the editor.

Another great list of poetry blogs from @davebonta.bsky.social

My poem The rising temperature of a cellar bar published in @blacknorereview.bsky.social with thanks to the editor blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/e...

Emma Lee is at a gig in today's atmospheric poem. @emmalee1.bsky.social

Reviews deserve better than the Gutter emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/r...